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Vasiliki Kioupi has always run science experiments with her students. Now she is also testing various pedagogical methods in her classroom and is moving towards teaching the teachers.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Could hydrogen be the best alternative for fossil fuels? This demonstration shows how a hydrogen economy might work in practice.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Building a hypothetical family portrait can help students to understand genetics.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16;
These simple but unusual life forms can be used to develop students’ understanding of life and the scientific method.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Why do giant redwoods grow so tall and then stop? It all has to do with how high water can travel up their branches.
Ages: 16-19;
Online tools can be used to compare the sequences of proteins and understand how different organisms have evolved.
Ages: 16-19;
One hundred years after the start of the First World War, chemical weapons are still in the news. We consider some of the ethical questions behind the war’s chemical legacy.
Ages: 16-19;
You are what you eat – quite literally. Our diet can influence the tiny changes in our genome that underlie several diseases, including cancer and obesity.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Cell’s movements are important in health and diseases, but their speed is the crucial point for the 2013 World Cell Race organised by Daniel Irimia.
Ages: 16-19;
Many naturally occurring compounds are useful in medicine – but they can be fabulously expensive to obtain from their natural sources. New scientific methods of synthesis and production are overcoming this problem.
Ages: 16-19;
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Experienced and experiencing teacher
Topics: Profiles
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A classroom hydrogen economy
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Engineering
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All in the family
Topics: Biology, Mathematics
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Intelligent slime? A hands-on project to investigate slime moulds
Topics: Biology
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How water travels up trees
Topics: Biology
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Using biological databases to teach evolution and biochemistry
Topics: Biology
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Experiments in integrity – Fritz Haber and the ethics of chemistry
Topics: Chemistry, Science and society
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Food that shapes you: how diet can change your epigenome
Topics: Biology, General science, Chemistry
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Making the right moves
Topics: Biology, General science
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Inspired by nature: modern drugs
Topics: Chemistry, General science, Health
